A few weeks ago, Mikel Garikoitz, alias Txeroki, former military leader of ETA, was released from Martutene prison under a semi-liberty regime. He has served seventeen years of his four hundred-year sentence. He leaves the prison to work and perform volunteer tasks, as stipulated by the court. Ana Rosa's program They wasted no time waiting for him at the door and pushing him to see where he was going. Manu Marlasca, the expert contributor on current events and other sordid topics, commented on it sarcastically:Oh! Surprise! Seventeen years later he enjoys a semi-freedom regime that has come, logically, when the Basque government takes charge of this type of consequence"And, irritated, he asked the editor if they had seen him work:"Have you seen him work hard? Are his hands calloused and worn out from working?"They insisted on the myth of the ETA members' high life. Ana Rosa Quintana lamented the difficulties in keeping up with it:"He is protected, unlike the raped woman."He was referring to the victim from a previous news story."The reporter excitedly recounted his pursuit. The chaotic images recorded on the street with the camera on his shoulder incorporated the delirious questions he asked Txeroki:Do you even like democracy at all? With all the victims you had when you were the head of ETA, you don't even have the courage to say anything?"The journalist claimed that the men accompanying him were..."people from the Basque nationalist environment"And he reproached them for going with him:"You're always with Txeroki, huh? Always warning him!"During a car chase on the highway, he ventured to claim that the protagonist"He moves the same way he did when he was the head of the terrorist group: he makes double turns around roundabouts, takes several directions, and when he arrives at his destination he changes cars."While pursuing him, the questions he asked him encompassed all the journalistic clichés of the anti-ETA jargon:"Do you regret what you did during your years as head of ETA?", "Was it worth it?", "What are you doing outside of prison? Aren't you saying anything to the victims?", "Do you condemn violence or not? Or is all this nonsense?"The editor criticized him for his cold attitude, for not looking him in the eye, and for refusing to speak into his microphone. All of Quintana's colleagues, fascinated by the reporter's boldness, congratulated him on his work. It was paradoxical how much they disdained him and, at the same time, how they regretted not being able to talk to him:"They were brave, even when they killed innocent people at their jobs..."The presenter criticized, reproaching him for his cowardice in not showing his face. It's grotesque that these presenters, who in the past lamented the dialogue with ETA to achieve peace, now need to bring these figures back into the media spotlight, have them exclusively, put a microphone in front of them, and get statements from them, even encouraging them to address their victims. The worst part is imagining what they would do if they got any response."

The PSOE's debacle in the Aragon elections has further fueled Ana Rosa Quintana and Susanna Griso's morning shows in their attacks on Pedro Sánchez. Both presenters were focused on Felipe González's participation in a talk to emphasize their attacks on the Socialist government. Public MirrorGriso also interviewed former minister Jordi Sevilla, who represents the party's critical wing, to rub salt in the wound. As a curious anecdote, the journalist also highlighted a comment a woman had made to Pedro Sánchez:Eat a little bit, you're too thin!"," the woman told the president. And Griso kept insisting on how unwell Sánchez looked.

The commuter rail system's inefficiency has been going on for years. However, the Madrid media only started paying attention when their own commuter rail service began to fail. Amid the rail crisis and the severity of the accidents in Adamuz and Gelida, the problems with Renfe in Catalonia have become the epicenter of the drama. They have served to accentuate this effect of a mountain of problems where more and more circumstances keep piling up. The reports on the commuter rail are more or less the same everywhere: dispatches from stations explaining the system's shutdowns and statements from desperate users. Added to this is the political squabble to assign blame. But beyond this, there are three basic axes around which the narrative pivots, both in news programs and morning shows. A first factor is the instrumentalization of the conflict. The disaster has become a tool to undermine Pedro Sánchez's government and its relations with the Catalan independence movement. On Monday, Susanna Griso reminded everyone thatPedro Sánchez has been in power for seven years. I mean, this crisis is hitting him hard. He's already been involved with ERC.Ana Rosa Quintana has repeatedly insisted on demanding the resignation of the Spanish president and Minister Óscar Puente.

On Monday, a journalist from New York Times He discovered, near the Adamuz accident site, one bogie From the wrecked train: a ten-ton piece from the underside of one of the trains that was ejected 270 meters from the tracks. The discovery sparked the detective spirit of Ana Rosa Quintana's team, who immediately organized a field trip to the area to see if they could find more scrap metal. At nine o'clock on Thursday morning, the presenter announced the discovery of some key pieces to solve the cause of the accident. As a teaser, they used a video worthy of a true crime A low-budget series where a writer and four teenage neighbors from Adamuz explored the area, acting as astute detectives. To create intrigue, they showed the scene of their discovery, but pixelated the scrap metal as if it were pornographic, as if it might offend the audience's sensibilities. To compete with the New York Times they taught the bogie and they said:This piece pales in comparison to the piece we found on Ana Rosa's program."They constructed a cheap epic to describe how they had battled the elements to find the train fragments:"It was raining heavily, there was mud everywhere..."And they showed images of the team, soaking wet, with gladiatorial music playing, ready to leap into the Roman circus arena. They asserted that the pieces they had found could change the course of the investigation and clarified that they had already informed the Civil Guard of the entire inventory from the morning until the mornings, including images of the material located." true crime homemade in a corner of the screen under a sign in capital letters: "EXCLUSIVE: We found a key piece of evidence for the investigation"

It's the trial they've been waiting for for years. On Monday morning, Spanish private television channels reported on the start of the Pujol case trial with the same exacting precision with which they pronounced his surname.Puyol"It's an allegory for investigative journalism. Ana Rosa's program They inquired about "the hidden fortune" with the help of Eduardo Inda, the leading expert on the matter. In the montages of archival footage of the Pujol family, they used sequences of stacks of banknotes as a separator. The presenter and her colleagues mixed and confused circumstances, details, and news stories, in a totum revolutum of the case. In Antena 3 News The news report incorporated a subtle humorous montage in the style of APM, taking expressions and blunders from Pujol and Ferrussola to make the case even more grotesque.Those who were the image of cleanliness and integrity in Catalonia will be judged for the exact opposite."," they said to close the report. It was a constant theme throughout the morning: a certain judgment of Catalan society, as if it were complicit, as proof of the hypocrisy of an entire country. But the one who was most agitated and exuded uninhibited contempt was Antonio García Ferreras in Red hotHe spent the entire morning repeating the exact same litany:Jordi Pujol, possibly the most corrupt politician in Spanish history. They've really taken advantage of him!"He displayed a certain sarcastic distrust of Jordi Pujol's medical assessments. After a live report by journalist Ferran Casas commenting on the start of the trial, Ferreras dismissed him, adding a postscript of his own:"I think he's stolen so much he's forgotten all about it."When it was the turn of the former general secretary of CCOO Catalunya, Joan Coscubiela, now an analyst on the program, to speak, García Ferreras kept repeating the same thing: "23 years taking it away from the crude oil for decades and decades in power!"And he insisted:"They took it from him raw! I think he's one of the most corrupt politicians and families in the history of Spanish democracy."The conversation alluded to the complicity of Catalan society. The presenter ofRed hot He repeated to her through the large mouthpiece:All of Catalonia knew what he knew, but he was untouchable, he was the emperor.". Shortly afterwards, the mantra about Jordi Pujol returned: "He is one of the politicians who has stolen the most money from the citizens."

After almost three decades working at Mediaset, the corporation has decided to dismiss Alessandro Lecquio, who will no longer be on the program he currently collaborates on. Let's see, from Ana Rosa Quintana's production company, Unicornio Contento. In October, his ex-partner Antonia Dell'Atte gave an interview to The Country in which she denounced how she suffered physical abuse at the hands of the Telecinco collaborator in the late 1980s. These statements were no secret: in the early 2000s, Lecquio had sued Antonia for alleged slander and for labeling him an abuser on television, but she has not been afraid to repeat these words on several occasions.

The strategy of spite is one of the most useful for bringing corruption to the surface in the media, and Telecinco has its hand broken. Mayte Zaldívar has been the leading figure since she went on air live in 2004, explaining how her ex-husband, Julián Muñoz, kept garbage bags full of bundles of bills at home. Resentful of the cuckolding the mayor of Marbella had put on her with Isabel Pantoja, she raised the hue and cry in one of the most high-profile cases of embezzlement of public funds and urban planning malfeasance in Spain. Two years later, Cachuli was imprisoned. On Monday, it was the turn of José Luis Ábalos's ex-wife, who opened her mouth, fed up with the deception and harassment of her former husband. The former Minister of Transport unsuccessfully tried to stop the broadcast through legal proceedings. Carolina Perles told a sordid and terrifying story of commissions, prostitutes, Viagra, parties, and drugs to supplement the precarious management of her portfolio as minister.

The morning magazines on Telecinco and Antena 3 invest significant time and resources every morning undermining Pedro Sánchez's government and narratively exploiting the corruption cases of Ábalos, Koldo, and Santos Cerdán. This daily repetition therefore requires unprecedented levels of journalistic creativity, with unclear reporting practices and rather sordid narratives.

Mediaset's digital platform, Mitele, has launched a video podcast hosted by Ana Rosa Quintana's son. Álvaro Rojo Quintana is a criminal lawyer by profession and runs his own law firm. He has the appearance of a young, conservative Madrid native, resembles his mother, has a more discreet manner, and an amateurish demeanor in front of the camera. During a murder trial in which Rojo was acting as the defense attorney, he met Juan Manuel Medina Andrés, the prosecution attorney and a regular contributor to television magazines. From that encounter, a personal connection was born and the idea of creating a program together has now become a reality. My days in prison These are half-hour interviews with prominent prisoners who recount their experiences behind bars. The series opens with Ángel María Villar, former president of the Spanish Football Federation, who spent ten days in prison in 2017. Former Barça president Sandro Rossell will be another guest. illustrious It's more flexible, because the rest of the interviewees aren't particularly well-known or media-savvy.

Since Telecinco lost its lead as the most watched television channel in Spain in 2022, the channel has been making some not always gentle changes to try to reconnect with viewers. One of its flagships has been Ana Rosa Quintana, who was placed first in the afternoons and, suddenly, returned this February to the morning slots where she made the bulk of her career. This return to its origins has worked well, in terms of audience, for the channel, although the joys are, however, slight quantitatively and, in addition, point to some problems.